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Best Practices in Intellectual Disability Identification
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Fiorello, Catherine A.; Jenkins, Tiffany K. – Communique, 2018
This article is an overview of identification of intellectual disabilities (ID), with a focus on meeting legal and ethical requirements when assessing children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and those living in poverty. Specific procedures and recommended instruments will be reviewed.
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Disability Identification, Best Practices, Legal Responsibility
Diagnosing Intellectual Disability in a Forensic Sample: Gender and Age Effects on the Relationship between Cognitive and Adaptive Functioning
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Hayes, Susan C. – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 2005
Background: The relationship between adaptive behaviour and cognitive functioning in offenders with intellectual disabilities is not well researched. This study aims to examine gender and age effects on the relationship between these two areas of functioning. Method: The "Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales" (VABS) and the "Kaufman…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Test Results, Males, Intelligence Tests
Intellectual and Adaptive Functioning: Some Tables for Interpreting the Vineland in Combination with Intelligence Tests.
Atkinson, Leslie – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1990
The article provides a set of tables with the differences necessary for statistical significance between the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales and Bayley Scales of Infant Development, McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities, Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, and Wechsler scales. The tables are intended to supplement clinical decisions in…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Evaluation Methods, Intelligence Tests, Mental Retardation